[jonas21]

For starters, Waymo reported 1 disengagement per 29,944 miles driven in 2020 to the California DMV [1], while in the talk, Karpathy implies that a Tesla being able to drive around the SF area for 2 hours without a disengagement is unusual. Note that Tesla didn't file a disengagement report because they didn't do any autonomous testing on public roads in California in 2020.

There are issues with reading too much into disengagements, but there certainly seems to be a large difference here.

[1] https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2021/02/09/2020-disen...

[Animats]

Waymo's number for 2019 was around 11,000 miles driven per disengagement. It's been improving steadily, at a reasonably good rate.

Tesla wimps out and won't test in California, because they'd have to report.

[pokerhobo]

Isn’t Waymo only driving in small HD mapped areas? Previously the were only driving within a 50 mile area of Arizona where it’s clear weather all the time.